ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,774, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Methods and apparatus of video coding using palette mode" was invented by Hong-Jheng Jhu (Beijing), Yi-Wen Chen (Beijing), Xiaoyu Xiu (Beijing), Xianglin Wang (Beijing), Tsung-Chuan Ma (Beijing) and Bing Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus performs a method of decoding video data. The method comprises: receiving, from bitstream, a plurality of syntax elements associated with a coding unit, wherein the plurality of syntax elements indicate a size of the coding unit and a coding tree type of the codi...